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"We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and true religion. Our constitution is made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams, to the Officers of the First Brigade, Third Division, Massachusetts Militia, October 11, 1798.

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Monday, January 31, 2011

Once Again Stimulus Spending Doesn’t Work

New York Times propagandist Paul Krugman and other liberal-progressives are still beating the drums for more and bigger Federal deficit spending. Unhappily, the fact is that the Democrat/Socialist Party’s $862 billion stimulus, the largest in world history, failed to revive the economy.

That failure is shared by every such effort, from Franklin Roosevelt’s “pump priming” in the 1930s through the present day. Results of the latest stimulus program are just as they have been in the past: a failure at reviving business and employment, but a big pay-off for unions and other special interest groups. John F. Cogan’s and John B. Taylor’s Where Did the Stimulus Go? gives us the numerical particulars.